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Ending Forced Busing

Boston announced last week that it was ending a mandatory-busing scheme first imposed in 1974 under a federal court school-desegregation order. What took so long?

"Children are being bused now because they have been bused for forty years and no one has had the political courage to dismantle it," Lawrence DiCara, a former Boston city councilor, told the New York Times in October. "Now, there are no white kids to be integrated. Everyone is being randomly bussed. It makes no sense." He hit the nail on the head....